eh. 14. 13. 2 They will expel you the synagogue; nay, the time is coming, 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth it is for your good that I depart; for if I do not depart, the Monitor will not come to 8 you; but if I go away, I will send him to you. And when he is come, he will convince the world concerning sin, and concern9 ing righteousness, and concerning judgment: concerning sin, be10 cause they believe not on me, concerning righteousness, be11 cause I go to my Father, and ye see me no longer; concerning judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. 12 I have many things still to tell you, but ye cannot bear them. 13 But when the Spirit of Truth is come, he will conduct you into all the truth for his words will not proceed from himself; but whatsoever he shall have heard, he will speak, and show 14 you things to come. He will glorify me; for he will receive of 15 mine what he shall communicate to you. Whatsoever is the Father's is mine; therefore I say that he will receive of mine to communicate to you. 16 Within a little while ye shall not see me; a little while after, 17 ye shall see me; because I go to the Father. Some of his disciples said among themselves, What meaneth he by this, "Within a little while ye shall not see me; a little while after, 18 ye shall see me; because I go to the Father?" What meaneth this little while of which he speaketh? We do not compre19 hend it. Jesus perceiving that they were desirous to ask him, said to them, Do ye inquire amongst yourselves about this that I said: "Within a little while ye shall not see me; a little while 20 after ye shall see me?" Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye will weep and lament; but the world will rejoice: ye will be sor21 rowful; but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman in travail, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when her son is born, she remembereth her anguish no longer, for joy 22 that she hath brought a man into the world. So ye at present are in grief; but I will visit you again, and your hearts shall be 23 joyful, and none shall rob you of your joy. On that day ye will put no questions to me. Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give 24 you. Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be complete. 25 These things I have spoken to you in figures: the time approacheth when I shall no more discourse to you in figures, but 26 instruct you plainly concerning the Father. Then ye will ask in my name, and I say not that I will entreat the Father for 27 you; for the Father himself loveth you, because ye love me, 28 and believe that I came from God. From the presence of the Father I came into the world. Again I leave the world, and 29 return to the Father. His disciples replied: Now indeed 30 thou speakest plainly, and without a figure. Now we are convinced that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any should put questions to thee. By this we believe that thou 31 camest forth from God. Jesus answered them: Do ye now 32 believe? Behold the time cometh, or rather is come, when ye Matt. 26. 31shall disperse, every one to his own, and shall leave me alone: yet Mar. 14. 27. 33 I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world. XVII. WHEN Jesus had ended this discourse, he said, lifting up his eyes to heaven: Father, the hour is come; glorify thy 2 Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee; that being endowed Matt. 28. 18. by thee with authority over all men, he may bestow eternal life 3 on all those whom thou hast given him. Now this is the life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus the Messiah 4 thy apostle. I have glorified thee upon the earth; I have fin5 ished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, Father, glorify thou me in thine own presence with that glory which I enjoyed with thee before the world was. 6 I have made known thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. They were thine; and thou 7 gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Whatsoever thou hast given me, they now know to have come from thee; and that thou hast imparted unto me the doctrine which I have 8 imparted unto them. They have received it as such, knowing eb. 16.27. for certain, that I came forth from thee, and am commissioned 9 by thee. It is for them that I pray. I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me, because they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine mine, and I am glorified in 11 them. I continue no longer in the world; but these continue in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, preserve them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one 12 as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those whom thou hast given me I have preserved; none of them is lost except the son of perdition, as the ch. 18. a 13 Scripture foretold. But now that I am coming to thee, I speak these things in the world, that their joy in me may be complete. 14 I have delivered thy word to them, and the world hateth them, ch. 12. 26. Mar. 14. 43. Lu. 22 47. because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the 15 world. I do not pray thee to remove them out of the world, but 16 to preserve them from evil. Of the world they are not, as I am 17 not of the world. Consecrate them by the truth; thy word is 18 the truth. As thou hast made me thy apostle to the world, 19 I have made them my apostles to the world. And I consecrate myself for them, that they may be consecrated through the truth. 20 be, those whom thou hast given me may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou gavest me, because thou lov25 edst me before the formation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world knoweth not thee, I know thee; and these 26 know that I have thy commission. And to them I have communicated, and will communicate thy name, that I being in them, they may share in the love wherewith thou lovest me. SECTION XI.-THE CRUCIFIXION. XVIII. WHEN Jesus had spoken these words, he passed with bis disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into 2 which he entered and his disciples. Now Judas who betrayed him knew the place, because Jesus often resorted thither with Matt. 26. 47. 3 his disciples. Then Judas having gotten the cohort,* and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came thither 4 with lanterns and torches, and arms. But Jesus, who knew all 5 that was coming upon him, went forth and said to them: Whom seek ye? They answered him: Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus replied: I am he. Now Judas who betrayed him was with 6 them. He had no sooner said to them, "I am he," than they 7 going backwards fell to the ground. He therefore asked them again: Whom seek ye? They said: Jesus the Nazarene. Je8 sus answered: I have told you that I am he. If, therefore, ye 9 seek me, let these go away. Thus was that which he bad spoken verified, "Of those whom thou gavest me I have lost 10 none." Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, and 11 smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant's name was Malchus. Jesus them said to Peter: * A Roman troop of soldiers, containing about five hundred. ca. 17. 12. 12 Put up the sword into the scabbard : Shall I not drink the cup which the Father hath given me? Then the cohort and their commander, and the Jewish officers, apprehended Jesus, and having bound him, brought him 13 first to Annast because he was father-in-law to Caiaphas who 14 was high priest that year. Now it was Caiaphas who had ch. 11. 50. said in council to the Jews, "It is expedient that one man die for the people." 15 Mar. 14. 54. Meantime Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. Matt. 26. 58. That disciple being known to the high priest, entered his court- Lu. 22 54. 16 yard with Jesus. But Peter stood without at the door. Therefore the other disciple who was known to the high priest went 17 out and spoke to the portress, and brought in Peter. Then this maid, the portress, said to Peter: Art not thou also one 18 of this man's disciples? He answered: I am not. Now the 19 servants and the officers stood near a fire which they had made, because it was cold, and warmed themselves. And Peter was standing with them, and warming himself. Then the high priest interrogated Jesus concerning his dis20 ciples and his doctrine. Jesus answered: I spake openly to the world; I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple, whither the Jews constantly resort. I said nothing in se21 cret. Why examinest thou me? Examine them who heard 22 me teach. They know what I said. When he had spoken thus, one of the officers who attended gave him a blow, and said: 23 Answerest thou thus the high priest? Jesus replied: If I have spoken amiss, show wherein it is amiss; if well, why smitest Matt. 26. 57. 24 thou me? Now Annas had sent him bound to Caiaphas the Mar. 14. 53. high priest: Mar. 14. 67. 25 As Peter stood warming himself, they asked him: Art not Matt. 26. 69. thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said: I am Lu. 22.55. 26 not. One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman to him whose ear Peter had cut off, said: Did not I see thee in the 27 garden with him? Peter denied again, and immediately the cock crew. 28 THEN they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the pretorium: it was now morning; but the Jews entered not pretorium, lest they should be defiled, and so not in a condition 29 to eat the passover. Pilate, therefore went out to them, and 30 said: Of what do ye accuse this man? They answered: If he were not a criminal, we would not have delivered him to 31 thee. Pilate therefore said: Take him yourselves then, and judge him according to your law. The Jews replied: We are * A Roman troop of soldiers, containing about five hundred. + Called by Josephus Ananus. Procurator's palace, or hall of audience. Matt. 27. 1. Mar. 15. 1. Lu. 23. 1. Acts 10. 28. & 11. 3. Matt. 20. 19. 32 not permitted to put any man to death. And thus what Jesus had spoken, signifying what death he should die, was accomplished. Matt. 27. 11. 33 Mar. 15. 2. Mar. 15. 6. Lu. 23. 17. Then Pilate returned to the pretorium, and having called Je34 sus, said to him: Thou art the king of the Jews? Jesus answered: Sayest thou this of thyself; or did others tell thee so 35 concerning me? Pilate replied: Am I a Jew? Thine own na tion, yea the chief priests, have delivered thee to me. What 36 hast thou done? Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my adherents would have fought to prevent my falling into the hands of the Jews; 47 but my kingdom is not hence. Pilate thereupon said: Thou art king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am king. For this I was born; and for this I came into the world, to give testimony to the truth. Whosoever is of the truth hearkeneth 38 unto me. Pilate asked him: What is truth? and so saying, went out again to the Jews, and said to them: For my part, I Matt. 27. 15. 39 find nothing culpable in this man. But since it is customary that I release to you one at the passover, will ye that I release Acts, 3. 14. 40 to you the king of the Jews? Then they all cried, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. Matt. 27. 27. XIX. Then Pilate caused him to be scourged. And the soldiers crowned him with a wreath of thorn which they had platted; 3 and having thrown a purple mantle about him, said, Hail, king of 4 the Jews! and gave him blows on the face. Pilate, therefore, went out again and said to them: Lo, I bring him forth to you, 5 that ye may know that I find in him nothing culpable. Jesus then went forth wearing the crown of thorns and the purple man6 tle; and Pilate said to them, Behold the man! When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried, saying: Crucify, crucify him. Pilate said to them: Take him yourselves 7 and crucify him; as for me, I find no fault in him. The Jews answered: We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he assumed the title of Son of God. Mar. 15. 15. 8 When Pilate heard this, he was the more afraid, and having 9 returned to the pretorium, said to Jesus: Whence art thou? 10 But Jesus gave him no answer. Then Pilate said to him: Wilt thou not speak unto me? Knowest thou not that I have power 11 to crucify thee, and power to release thee? Jesus replied: Thou couldst have no power over me, unless it were given thee from above; wherefore he who delivered me unto thee hath the 12 greater sin. Thenceforth Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews exclaimed: If thou release this man thou art not Cæsar's friend. Whoever calleth himself king, opposeth Cæsar. 13 Pilate, on hearing these words, ordered Jesus to be brought forth, and sat down on the tribunal in a place named the pave |